The other tracks one to a discarding, it remained only to ask the outgoing President to remain in place for a second septennat, despite his wish not to be represented at the age of 80 years.
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Would he better continue the game of massacre or take note of the blockage and seek a way out, even at a price of a slight sprain with institutional logic? It took a day of Friday disastrous so that the leaders of the main Italian political forces are obviously and decided to put an end to an endless struggle, asking the outgoing President, Sergio Mattella, notoriously hostile to this hypothesis, to stay at the Quirinal Palace a few more years.
In the afternoon of Saturday, January 29, receiving a delegation of parties and presidents of regions, he said it would be available “even if he had other projects”. Therefore, in the hemicycle of Montecitorio, the eighth round of voting was only a formality. A little after 20 hours, Sergio Mattella, 80, was therefore re-elected with 759 votes on 984 votes cast for a second septennate which he would probably abbreviate, following the example of his predecessor Giorgio Napolitano.
The disunion of the right
The last hours had demonstrated the inability of different political forces to find common ground. At the fifth ballot, the leader of the League (extreme right) Matteo Salvini, has tried the passage in force, advancing the name of the second character of the state, the president of the Senate, Martia Elisabetta Casellati, without The agreement of the left and movement 5 stars (antisystem). The failure was predictable but its magnitude (382 votes, 123 less than the required majority) made visible in the open the disunion of the right, as well as the absolute necessity of a prior agreement between the parties.
A few hours later, the same salvini, so as not to lose the initiative, has advanced its willingness to elect “a woman” and then referred to Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni, current responsible for the Italian intelligence services, including the “Moment” will last at the end of the last one hour … In the confusion, it is the former head of the 5 star Luigi di Maio movement, current head of the Italian diplomacy, who seemed to hold the speech the most Measured estimating “disappointing that is thrown into a profile as high as Elisabetta Belloni”, as he has publicly regretted, before calling a general agreement.
Also in the evening of Friday, did the party leaders finally missioned the President of the Mario Draghi Council to ask Sergio Mattella to agree to stay in place in the name of the interest of the nation. A year earlier it was the opposite: lack of consensus on the direction of the government, it was Sergio Mattella who had asked Mario Draghi to take the reins of the government.
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